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Version 2 by Kent M Pitman Once player loads, click “Play” to hear this poem read by the author. ...

I should say as context that I had been having a conversation on Mastodon in which I got the idea to write a poem that was somehow both ...

Once born, people push on the world and it pushes back. We are not born expecting a specific number of arms or fingers. If born with an ext...

A tweet written in limerick led me to respond in kind : After laws broken daily for years, “Shocked, Shocked” are a Speaker and peers. ...

Solitude stalks me, leaving me never alone. Then you scare it off. Author's Note: If you got value from this post, please “Shar...

First sea level came for the islanders, and I continued to deny—    Because “those people” are poor, and this is their lot in life. The...

In response to a tweet by @Limericking , I wrote this limerick in a tweet : By treasonous channels he learned His opponent was soon to be...

Climate is cancer. Delay is hope we've squandered. We can't buy it back. #ParisAccord Originally published to Twitter in re...

Life is a calm room,  hurricane raging outside,  paper walls between.

We moved between cool cubes of crisp White after White, neatly aligned,   topped by meticulous matrices of Indian Red,     shielding us...

Every poet has died. I mourn that this night has come. Yet, as I mourn, I see the morning light. Poets die, but poetry lives. Poet...

Author's Note: If you got value from this post, please “Share” it. This was a valentire I made for my wife in 2012. Origin...

Author's Note: If you got value from this post, please “Share” it. Originally published January 12, 2012 on Twitter, as part...

This was written for RomanticPoetess ... Author's Note: If you got value from this post, please “Share” it. Originally pu...

Background This is not a traditional-style Valentine’s Day poem. I originally wrote this as prose, years ago, for submission to another...

I moved a lot growing up, so I didn't like throwing things away. I liked collecting things—until finally they made things stamped “...

One of the perils of business success is that when you have a large installed base of users, you have to be very careful about making chan...